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In Britain and Europe, people go to restaurants, bars, and pubs with their dogs. In most places, dogs are allowed inside the establishments as well as outside on the patios. Man's best friend is allowed to enter, but is not served by the restaurateurs. Until now...

At 7:40AM EDT on July 26, the Ford Motor company introduced a major
departure in unveiling a new car with the launch of the 2011 Ford
Explorer on Facebook.
Departing from the "Mad Men" Days of traditional advertising and
revealing a new car on the floor of an Auto Show, Ford chose Social Media
to motivate buyers.

How many of us leave a half-dozen or so tabs open in our browser
throughout the course of the day? Apparently this is the new breeding
ground for hackers to lie in wait. The latest malware to hit the digital
airways is called 'tabnabbing' and it seizes on an opportunity to steal
passwords when users log-in to email or banking accounts, and leave the tabs open for a period of time.

The presidents who have navigated and adapted to new technologies during
their campaigns and while in office have helped distinguish these
successful U.S. leaders. From FDR to JFK to Obama, each
embraced new mediums that gave them a greater opportunity to communicate with
their voting constituencies in more meaningful ways.

While many a world leader has embraced social media over the course of
the last few years, the Windsors at Buckingham Palace seemed to be the
last hold-outs. With Russia's president Dmitry
Medvedev and even dictators like Hugo
Chavez having joined the social networking rank and file, Queen
Elizabeth and her clan appeared to still be living in the 20th Century
devoid of a tweet or an avatar. Apparently someone tipped off the
monarchy ...

While the debate on privacy continues to
rage on at home and abroad, it has not hindered Facebook from scaling to a half
billion users this past week. With only China and India's populations
larger, Facebook is the
third largest 'nation' in the world? But with no land to defend and a
citizenry not bound by any government, how could a social network rank
third in followers globally?

Is Facebook better suited for the small vs large Screen? With all the
flack Mr. Mark Zuckerberg is receiving from the producers of the
soon-to-be released movie "The
Social Network," he's hoping to score some quality points with an
image-makeover in a guest appearance on The Simpsons.

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) committed $122 million to a
team of university scientists to mount the daunting task of creating
fuel directly from the sun. Skip the plants and forget about solar
panels; the DOE is talking about developing an artificial
photosynthesis, one that can create gasoline directly out of sunlight.

This is not a conspiracy theory. According to the American Registry for
Internet Numbers (ARIN) and Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet
Evangelist, the Internet is coming to the end of the road when it will
officially run out of IP addresses. At least the Internet as we know it
today.

Using data from the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol
and Related Conditions, researchers sought to learn the influence of
the gender of an alcoholic parent on the risk of their children
developing some sort of psychopathology as adults.

In the realm of new home appliances, I have to admit that the Bosch Instant Dishwasher is
smart; smart as in stylish and smart as in design and technology. But
smart as in energy savings? Or smart as in necessary? No. C'mon! A
one person, one meal dishwasher?

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